Re: ttf-liberation over ttf-mscorefonts; was Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 09:02:38 Huang, Tao wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> > Dne, 27. 04. 2011 12:36:03 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a):
> >> On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud wrote:
> >> > Seems a quite reasonable policy to me. Of course, we all wish we
> >> > could run free software ponly on our machines, but the time doesn't
> >> > seem ripe for that.
> >>
> >> But we are getting closer every year:
> >>
> >> $ aptitude search '~s"non-free|contrib"~i!~M'
> >> i firmware-iwlwifi - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless
> >> 3945, 4
> >> i flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player - browser
> >> plugin i nvidia-glx - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
> >> i nvidia-settings - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA
> >> graphics d
> >> i opera - A fast and secure web browser and
> >> Internet
> >> i skype - Skype
> >> i sun-java6-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
> >> i unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files
> >> (non-free versio
> >>
> >> of these I could get rid of Opera anytime (I don't actually use it, but
> >> I test it from time to time) and probably the Java plugin (I don't even
> >> recall why it's installed).
> >>
> >> There is work in progress for replacements for the nvidia driver and the
> >> flash plugin (but still not entirely there).
> >>
> >> firmware-iwlwifi will be tough, because Intel claims it has to do with
> >> (FCC?) compliance and unrar because it's still quite widespread (but
> >> actually useless for compressed movies and mp3s, so it's more of a user
> >> education thing).
> >
> > After the recent radeon improvements, my list is even shorter -- although
> > by only one line:
> >
> > i broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > - broadcom-sta modules for Linux (kernel
> > 2.6.32-5-amd64)
> > i broadcom-sta-source
> > - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver
> > i conky
> > - highly configurable system monitor
> > (transitional package)
> > i firmware-linux-nonfree
> > - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux
> > kernel
> > i flashplugin-nonfree
> > - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
> > i ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> > - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
> > i unrar
> > - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
> >
> > Of which I could easily get rid of ttf-mscorefonts, and potentially of
> > unrar and conky too (but I'm a huge fan of conky). And this is on a
> > laptop, which are notorious for requiring proprietary drivers and stuff.
> >
> > On my desktop, the list is even more optimistic:
> >
> > i flashplugin-nonfree
> > - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
> > i ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> > - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
> > i unrar
> > - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
> >
> > of which I could easily discard all but the flashplugin-nonfree (although
> > it's a piece of software I utterly despise).
>
> can be even shorter if u replace ttf-mscorefonts with ttf-liberation
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tao
> --
Thank you for the hint. I tried Liberation sans instead of Arial. It is not
the same. Non ASCII fonts with diacritical signs do not render correctly on-
screen. That is especially nasty when trying to read Greek or Hebrew
transcribed into Latin characters. For day-to-day work it might be OK however.
I didn't try printing yet.
Just my 2 ¢ ...
Cheers, Eike
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